Hi, stumbled here in my quest to set up an inexpensive amblight solution but I'm very confused.
Here is my understanding, pls correct if wrong:
I need
1. an addressable LED strip - ws2812b?
2. something to control it - ESP32 running WLED ok?
3. something to capture the HDMI signal - some USB capture device? I can see some posts which refer a HDMI to composite video converter. Is this needed?
4. Most problematic part; Hyperion Server aka Raspberry Pi!! which currently costs a fortune. Or a X86 machine which is like buying a bulldozer when I need a bicycle. I can see references to libreelec/ coreelec etc. Can I use something like an inexpensive amlogic box to run hyperion on instead? I defnitely need the generic HDMI signal to be used as the input and not kodi media etc, so is this possible?
Please help me with this. Thank you.